So long gone, so much has happened...

I see the last post I made has a picture of the tractor we did not buy. LOL. Since then we have bought a tractor, orange, rather than blue, built a bunch of fence, bought another horse, another lovely flaxen maned chestnut Haflinger mare named Candy, who proceeded to produce a baby boy, Ceasar, who is now living up to his name and trying to rule the roost around here. :-). Pictures and more to follow....

New Tractor in the Woods

Today the implement company delivered our new to us 2004 New Holland tractor - we will try it out for a few days and make sure it will do the tasks we need it to do. Darling hubby is so excited, he is going to take tomorrow off so he can get some things done. :-) The old Oliver was just getting too fragile, and whatever is the matter with it now seemed like it was going to require a major overhaul, so we are experimenting with moving the farm into the 21st century.... Having a tractor payment makes it even more important to make the farm self-supporting and sustainable. One possibility is growing more fruit - the blueberries and raspberry crops this year have been great, due to the lack of a hard late frost and all the moisture. The apple trees are doing well too. I've been looking at various schemes for intensive fruit management but if it worked so well, how come more people don't do it?